Xbox Live Down - Microsoft Investigating

If you're having trouble signing onto Xbox Live, you are not alone. Microsoft is aware of the issue and is "actively investigating," according to the official Xbox Support Twitter account. The Xbox Live status page notes that users may have trouble signing into Xbox Live via Xbox.com, though we've experienced the same issue when logging in via the Xbox 360 itself.

Update:

Service is back up and running according to official Xbox service website.

They fixed it faster than some other companies take their service down for maintenance. Heck, they fixed it faster than Amazon EC2 (cloud) fixes their outage for their enterprise ready service. The one that Netflix uses for their excellent streaming service!

That is why I love Xbox Live, they report issues, both on their website and the twitter page even if it only affects a small subset of people.

When XBL do maintenance, I don't even know, because the servers don't need to be taken down so you don't hear that XBL has a scheduled maintenance. It just happens in the background!

Heck, even the patches are done on the fly as in I don't have to log out or restart the game. The patch is downloaded and applied while my game is running and I'm good to go within a minute!

The title is incorrect and misleading and only a re*ard can't tell the difference as Xbox live is not down. I was just at my brother house watching him play Forza 4 online. Just because a few people can't go online don't mean Xbox live is down because it is not.

@rogimus...I live about 20 min from LAX in van nuys and it's working fine as of now for me... One time, my internet was down and i made the mistake of saving my game in the cloud... Won't be doing that again. ;)

I disagreed because guess what I disagreed with what you said. I live in Los Angeles as well and everything works well like I said in the my first post just because it's "allegedly" not working for you doesn't mean it's down for everyone.

You know how the internet is N4G at least is they see something bad about MS and the Xbox and everyone tries to jump on the band wagon claiming it happened to them too.

We disagreed, because plenty of us has no issues including matchmaking which was not affected. Besides, it was fixed within hours. I call that pretty good for the few that was affected.

You can go back to your PSN if you think it is a better service. We won't miss you.

@optimus:

"One time, my internet was down and i made the mistake of saving my game in the cloud."

on XBL, the cloud saves are saved locally on your hard drive so you shouldn't have any issues when your internet goes down. The only time it is a problem is when you run out of the 512MB of space allocated to cloud saves, then some saves get deleted to save space for your more recent games.

What came from MS? Not this misleading title that for sure. MS said that they are aware that there are (some issues) ... No where did MS say Xbox live is down and he never said no one else can't log in, he just stated its working fine for him and as I'm sure many others. So maybe you should stop being in denial and stop wishing it was down.

Why would I wish it was down? Because I just love dropping £35 down on Xbox Live for my 360 to find it goes down and I can't sign in. If I and others can't sign in then it's down. Might not be down Worldwide, but it is still down. If it wasn't then I would be playing Gears online right now.

Tell me what would you call it if you couldn't sign in? Jeez! Instead of getting defensive over the title, try reading the article itself!

Steam's fine... until *your* internet connection is down. Then you can't play a damn thing unless you convert it to Offline Mode... for which you need an internet connection to switch. Still love it - the sales get me every time.

Actually, it was hacked, and a short while after, sloten codes for ms points, xbox live and games were being used like mad. Microsoft couldn't do anything about it since they didn't know who had the stolen codes.

I guess I logged in before the problem started. Because I am still logged in. I am guessing I will have problems. If I log out & then try logging in later. There is probably just a lot of traffic on XBOX Live. Which is causing trouble. Which has happened before. Unlike Sony & the hacking situation which Sony warned nobody about. Hey if everyone else is going to take shots & they will

its true, u can disagree all u want. but if someone actually felt sorry for the ps3 users during our outage instead of laughing their asses off then maybe the ps3 fanboys would ignore this server difficulty.

This is what you posted 5 days ago. You seem to care much about the 360.

"Wow, Lost Odyssey huh? That game garnished 6's and 7's galore. PS3 got Demon's Souls and 360 got Lost Odyssey, wow LOL...No wonder COD is pretty much the only game played on LIve. If those were my choices I would only play COD too. What a joke the XBOX 360 is."

"Really, because LA Noire runs better on PS3 and it isn't four discs like 360 version, it's one disc you fucking troll. There's plenty of other multiplats that look better on PS3 and don't screen tear like hell, latest would be Prototype 2 and Dragon's Dogma, so troll harder. Nice try though..."

"No screen tearing to be found here in PS3 version unlike the 360 version which is absolutely full of screen tearing, it's everywhere."

"Ummm, no. MGS4 has plenty of varied gameplay with fairly challenging boss battles. Please don't talk like you played it when you most certainly didn't. Oh, and MGS4 got a 10 over at IGN, what 360 exclusive have they awarded a perfect score to again?? Oh wait...."

"Fitness for the 360 crowd?? Yea....ok, good luck with those slobs LOL"

"Yup, SONY screwed up bigtime by not making this beautiful rpg exclusive to PS3."

You claim you own a 360 and pay for Live. In reality, you're a little boy that can't convince mommy to pay for Live. Please get out of N4G.